The Unreal Reality of America

There's something weirdly unreal about America today, maybe in much of the West, but it seems worse in America. There are certain propositions that we are expected to repeat and believe that are just not true. Public health is telling us things that are just belied by any glance at the charts and graphs. And here I get back to Brooklyn because your book has a COVID section and also has a monetary policy section. The people running monetary policy like to give the impression that they're just carrying out the scientific demands of economics. Just leave the experts to it. It's like they're making it up as they go along. The finances of the US are entirely fake. The country is